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Keir Starmer’s cabinet would be the most state-educated in history – fascinating stat from @melissadenes’ excellent longread on private schools. https://t.co/LhulhWzV0W pic.twitter.com/wnBfGJQMgX
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Wayne Rooney got so obsessed with Wagatha Christie he looked into signing up to law school
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/wayne-rooney-obsessed-wagatha-christie-31206303
I can see him being the King of Torts (sic).
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho tells @TimesRadio
: “I wouldn't have used necessarily those words”
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1721426049139868020
They're not the BNP.
What they reveal is fascinating, what they hide is much more interesting.
https://twitter.com/LeeAndersonMP_/status/1721237434111832326?t=RBojQXLJ7SvVTB7jvo-svA&s=19
Witness Andy MacDonald. A moron’s moron. Says something deliberately / cretinously stupid and has the whip withdrawn. Then Tory Mince MP comes along, claims Andy Moron said some even more outrageous and not only gets sued, he manages to give credibility to Moron.
Actually, both Lee and Sue are victims of the Shock Jock trap. Once you make a career out of saying the unsayable, you have to keep going. At some point, unless you're very clever, you end up saying something that really really shouldn't be said.
A BRIEF THREAD: Back in 2014, Republican Bob McDonnell was convicted of bribery. But he successfully argued to SCOTUS that the bribery laws were too vague and ambiguous, and he got his conviction thrown out. 1/
In 2021, when the 1/6 committee was pushing for Electoral Count Act Reform, a bunch of republicans were on board. I thought SURELY they’re only supportive because it gives Donald a reason to appeal future convictions for violating the Electoral Count Act. 2/
SURE ENOUGH, tonight, Donald posts this on truth social...
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1721362282733867235
Politics is not in a great place now. Is it any wonder.
Jack Smith.
END/
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1721362282733867235
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GeKgrdIliKo
It's raining pretty heavily. The current weather forecast is for light cloud. Hmm.
Very bravely, the Guardian has published what it describes as a complete guide to the Israel/Palestine crisis.
I haven’t had time to read it yet! Not all of it anyway.
Incidentally Starmer went to a grammar school that converted to an independent school whilst he was there - he was exempt from the fees until 16 and then his sixth-form fees were paid by a bursary.
At the same time people on minimum wage pay VAT on a massive range of basic items.
I don't especially like this Labour policy, and have no problem with private schools but class war it is not.
Most private schools do not deserve special treatment on the basis of being charities. Some, but very few, do so operate, but basically charging loads to offer a service which would be a charitable service if provided free at the point of need is no more a charity in the public eye than Lidl. Foodbanks mat be a charity but Waitrose isn't.
Now that Mike is taking more of a back seat I really hope we can keep provocation off this site. The internet is full of trolling and this site can be above it.
There’s a debate to be had but not by deliberately winding-up @TSE
Peace to all
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a new YouGov poll of the London Mayoral race gives Sadiq Khan a 25-point lead over Susan Hall.
Khan (LAB): 50%
Hall (CON): 25%
Garbett (GREEN): 11%
Blackie (LD): 7%
Cox (REF): 4%
https://x.com/adambienkov/status/1721443180636143873?s=46
I have, inter alia, wound up Nats, Brexiteers, Corbynites, the DUP, and nuttier Tories, it is one of the perks of the job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truro_and_Falmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)
*Not a real word but it should be.
C- must try harder.
I don’t know what the solution is, but we’re not going to solve it in a couple of years. I’d like so see the currently very stark boundary between state and private provision much blurrier and less of a cliff edge.
If this is more than mere internal verbalising, the key question is about sequencing. Many people want a ceasefire. I do. But it is obvious to many that the unconditional release of the hostages is a precondition of a ceasefire. The councillors (SFAICS) are not saying, and are not being asked, where they stand on the critical issue of sequencing. Why? And does anyone know where they actually stand on this?
TSE is just having a bit of fun.
A lot of the politicians lost in the first few waves were less resignation and more not rerunning for seats when local elections came around. Whereas I think these politicians are still interested in political work, and want to make it clear they're a significant block that Labour need to win (and in certain councils that seems to be the case). I saw the headline at the weekend "How Labour can afford to lose (some) of their Muslim voters". I think some people want to show that that is not as easy as it sounds.
@DPJHodges
This week Keir Starmer began to look like a Prime Minister. And Rishi Sunak began to look like a hologram >
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/1721077248906715593?s=20
If not state schools will suffer as there will be some reduction in pupils being sent to private schools.
If those are indeed the alternatives, then he's probably making the right choice.
The other thing to note is that the baby bust that started in the 2010s is now now hitting primary schools and is set to wash up on secondaries soon. There are going to be quite a lot of schools with empty places in the next few years.
It is not surprising that he has extremely low personal favourability ratings given the polling for the Labour party - because he isn't winning the argument, Sunak and the Conservatives have just lost it and SKS is left holding the bag. If he continues like this he will be a very unpopular PM, potentially with a very large mandate, which could result in a quick flip back to Conservative rule.
BTW I am one of the votes Sir K needs - he needs two or three million Tory switchers. Because the Tories are so awful it would be hard to lose me, but he would if he lost sight of the events of 7th October or the continuing war crime of the hostages, and failed to prioritise Israel's defence against a group which would repeat the holocaust if they could.
As in the outside world, people in the branch offices don't get the opportunities those in head office get..
For some reason, I was never taught dead languages at school.
I do wonder with the London Mayoral election whether Rory Stewart might have chosen the wrong election when he briefly threw his hat into the ring for 2020 (withdrawing when it was postponed). Khan has been there a long while, Hall is scraping the barrel, the field is uninspiring, and there is probably an opening for a credible independent. But he's ruled himself out and I don't see where another one may emerge from.
Now she's talking about 'lifestyle choices'. Am I the only one to have noticed that the new Speaker of the US House of Representatives also likes talking about 'lifestyle choices'. He thinks that homosexuality is one of those choices. I wonder if Suella agrees.
See the link below for Pete Buttigieg's response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22VWUf2NA-M
Basically, no change on the previous poll by the same pollsters in August, but this is the highest DUP result since the last Assembly election, and the lowest UUP or TUV result.
Criticising a weather forecast for a positional error on a rain shower of perhaps as little as a few km is a bit harsh.
If you want a nowcast then look at the rainfall radar or satellite pictures (or out of the window).
No surprise Labour again proposing measures against private schools by ending their VAT exemption as Blair ended assisted places. Despite the fact that just makes access to private schools even more restricted and reduces their incentive to share facilities with the local community.
Starmer is of course himself privately educated, as most Labour general election winning PMs are, see also Attlee and Blair. Only Harold Wilson of election winning Labour PMs had his school education entirely in state schools
In reality the Overton window for election winning is very narrow. It involves: massive state management of society, highly regulated private enterprise, an expensive welfare/health state, absolute commitment to defence of the the west and law and order. This is not where either Tory or Labour membership is, but the voters are.
It’s odd that some of the AI chickenlickens are also in favour of preserving our thumb on the scale education system. If we (or more likely subsequent generations) are looking at long years of inactivity, presumably we’ll need cataclysmic change in our methods of educating people. I suspect they instinctively think they should reap as much advantage for their genetic line as possible while they can.
The most significant learning revelation I experienced in my 40 year career was when I grudgingly attended a 'Diversity' course (I know) and found out that it was focused on diversity of thinking and experience rather than ethnicity, gender, disability etc.
Of course those latter factors drive the former but it is the diversity of views that can deliver innovative business success.
For guidance on how VAT is applied to education go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-on-education-and-vocational-training-notice-70130.
AFAIK every business that has an income falls into one of three classes as far as VAT is concerned once the VAT annual turn-over threshold is reached or you choose to register:
1. Exempt - no need to fill in VAT returns, you do not put VAT on your invoices and you cannot recover any VAT you have paid on your purchases.
2. Standard rated - you add VAT at the appropriate rate to your invoices and at the end of each period you add up the VAT on your invoices and the VAT on your purchases and pay or recover the difference from the VAT people.
3. Zero rated - you add VAT at 0% to your invoices and recover the VAT you have paid on your purchases from the VAT people.
SKS can, along with all the people who are calling for a ceasefire, condemn the events of the 7th of October and the holding of hostages by Hamas (hostages that some reports are suggesting Hamas is trying to give back and Israel is refusing to negotiate for) and condemn the mass slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinians. He can accept that there are innocent victims in Israel and Palestine, and not condone the killing of thousands of children. SKS has access to all the information I have - of Israeli ministers saying that all Palestinians should be nuked, "sent to Ireland or the desert"; that they are "human animals"; of missiles hitting Gazan hospitals, schools, refugee camps. He is a human rights lawyer; he is not blind. And yet he won't call for the bare minimum - as cessation of violence to potentially discuss peace terms. Should that not be the aim?
My wider point was that trying to legislate some of the best schools in the world out of existence, won’t simply lead to them closing and everyone going to state school. They’ll pop up somewhere else, and the global elites will send their kids there instead.
The main losers will be the kids of the UK middle classes, who can no longer afford to send their kids to those schools.
I’ll have to learn to chill about calling them scum.